New to Uniz – Question on setting support

Updated on June 5, 2018 in Getting Started
3 on June 1, 2018

Hi all

i am new to Uniz printer and its software. I would like to know can the model directly be printed after generate support? I don’t find any minima detection of the model just like Formlabs’s preform did? Anyone can point me to the right direction?

 

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2 on June 5, 2018

It’s hard to understand the question! Generating support and then hitting Slice will enable the object ready printing.

on June 5, 2018

Let me be more precise. 

Imagine you are printing a human like object with two arms pointing to the ground and two legs standing on the floor. And let say we print this object and letting this human like object to be standing straight on the building platform, two arms will be needed to be adding supports to it, right? or else the resin for the arm’s part will be cured without attaching to the body of the object. 

So what I am saying is, can Uniz’s software be able to automatically detect such area where supports MUST be needed by just clicking say a “detection” button just like what Formlabs’ software is doing? They call it the detection of minima.

Some other objects may have very complicated shape, where minima are all over the object, if there is no minima detection, it will be a very harsh work to find it manually. 

Please correct me if I misunderstand anything, many thanks!

on June 5, 2018

The function you describe is built into the support settings automatically. I think its set at 45 degrees default (I don’t think the angle can be changed) you can choose the spacing, diameter, head length and point size before pressing the “generate” button. Full instructions are here: https://www.uniz.com/us_en/support/supportsetprint/

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